NagStamon – Nagios status monitor for KDE GNOME

NagStamon – Nagios status monitor for KDE GNOME

Nagstamon is a Nagios status monitor sits in the systray or on desktop as floating statusbar to inform you in realtime about the status of your Nagios monitored network. It works best with GNOME but also with KDE and in Windows.

Install Nagstamon in openSUSE

Before installing Nagstamon, the “python-lxml” package needs to be installed for Nagstamon to work. Install python-lxml as follows:

This should install Nagstamon under “Applications – Internet – More Programs”.

Click to launch Nagstamon, enter the Nagios server information like the URL to access, the CGI path, user account details and then customize the view like to have a floating status bar on the desktop or a systray icon etc. Once done, you should see the nagios monitoring at a click of a button.

yast2 -i python-lxml is deprecated, one should use “zypper in python-lxml” instead. And the second package is installed better with “rpm -ivh nagstamon-0.8.2-2.noarch.rpm” (depending on the version, of course). The rason for that is that since SUSE 10.1 zypper is the software in the middle, so to install a package from a known repository you should use zypper, and fro packages lying around on the disk, rpm -i was always the best choice 😉